Muḥammad the Prophet and Arabia
By: Uri Rubin
Series: Variorum collected studies series -- CS968; Collected studies -- CS968.
Publisher: Ashgate Variorum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409408468
Subjects: Koran; History; Biography; History and criticism; In the Koran; Prophetic office; Islam
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Muḥammad's prophetic image. Muḥammad and the Qur'ān ; The Quar'ānic idea of prophets and prophethood ; Review of G. Lüling, Die Wiederentdeckung des Propheten Muḥammad ; Pre-existence and light : aspects of the concept of Nūr Muḥammad ; Muḥammad the exorcist : aspects of Islamic-Jewish polemics ; The shrouded messenger : on the interpretation of al-muzzammil and al-muddaththir; title: Muḥammad's prophetic experience. Muḥammad's night journey (isrā') to al-masjid al-aqṣā : aspects of the earliest origins of the Islamic sanctity of Jerusalem ; The life of Muḥammad and the Qur'ān : the case of Muḥammad's hijira; title: Muḥammad's Arabia. Abraha ; Ḥanīfiyya and Ka'ba : an inquiry into the Arabian pre-Islamic background of dīn Ibrāhīm ; Between Arabia and the Holy Land : a Mecca-Jerusalem axis of sanctity ; The hands of Abū Lahab and the gazelle of the Ka'ba ; Quraysh and their winter and summer journey : on the interpretation of Sūra 106 ; Morning and evening prayers in early Islam ; On the Arabian origins of the Qur'ān : the case of al-furqān.